Windows Vista Hacked Within Hours Of Launch

[Toucano]

http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=27388

Microsoft’s long-awaited Windows Vista was finally released yesterday – and already a hacker has claimed to have broken the operating software’s encryption.

Five years in the making, Windows Vista has been described by Bill Gates, head of Microsoft, as one of “the highest quality products that Microsoft has ever released. We are excited to see what people are going to do with it.”

Though today’s Metro reports that a Candian security expert has already released technical details of how to unlock Vista’s video encryption, allowing him to now copy high-def DVDs on to his computer.

Microsoft isn’t going to worry too much however, as Vista is expected to be installed in at least 100 million computers by the end of this year, keeping Gates at the top of the money tree for a long while yet.

[acmavm]

1. Bill Gates, the man who made billions stealing other people's

ideas and selling crap.

Whatta guy.

[Toots]

3. And he has the nerve to tell Jon Stewart about selling "beta" versions of software...

:shrug: Good does not always win out for sure...

[msongs]

2. links to documentation of his alleged criminal behavior? nt

[demnan]

4. Who's really surprised?

Booty code! :rofl:

[htuttle]

5. BWAAAAA! They already busted through the 'content protection' code!

That was one of the most draconian copy protection schemes I've ever heard of. Here's an article I found linked from somewhere about this new scheme, and how many ways it sucks:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

[SpiralHawk]

6. Gates & crew following the lead of Commander AWOL

[Ian David]

7. They should have hired THIS guy:

[darkism]

8. Take THAT, DRM!

Any content that can be locked down can be opened up. How about the media giants let consumers do as they wish with what they buy instead of wasting so many resources trying to restrict them?